PPT-Themes in Literature Theme and the Oral Tradition

Oral Tradition literature passed down through the ages by word of mouth Give a glimpse into the history customs beliefs and values of their respective cultures Emphasis on social and cultural contexts. FOLKLORE AND ORAL TRADITION 201 fields of agrarian folklore Your Task. Create a theme collage that depicts and explains important themes from the text. Should consist of carefully selected images, which represent specific aspects of the themes you are exploring. Pieter . Bruegel. the Elder (1525-1569). ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. The greatest of the Flemish sixteenth-century masters of genre was Pieter . Bruegel. the Elder. We know little of his life except that he had been to Italy, like so many northern artists of his time, and that he lived and worked in Antwerp and Brussels, where he painted most of his pictures in the 1560s, the decade in which the stern Duke of Alva arrived in the Netherlands. The dignity of art and of artists was probably as important to him as it was to . William Hogarth, British Painter (1697-1764). Hogarth . on Mark Hardin’s . Artchive. The London of William Hogarth. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. William Hogarth. Hogarth, William. The Fantastic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Grandmother and the Kids. Science fiction, then, commonly uses techniques both from the realistic and the . fantastic traditions of narrative . Nathanael West . (birth name: Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein) (1903-1940). American Writer. West as Drawn by David Levine. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Anaïs Nin. (1903-1977). David Cronenberg (1943- ). Canadian Filmmaker. Cronenberg. Interview on the Grotesque Blog. David . Cronenberg. and the Cinema of the Extreme. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Mikhail . Bakhtin. . (1895-1975). Russian literary historian and theorist. .. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. François. Mad . Men . and the Sixties. .  . Dr. David Lavery. Fall 2015.  . Weeklies.  . ENGL 2020 | Themes in Literature & Culture: . Mad . Men . and the Sixties.  . Movies of the 60s. Mike Nichols, 1967. A message from the author…. The Reader’s Job. Part of your job as a reader is to understand the author’s message.. Writers seldom come out and tell you, “Hey, Reader! THIS is what I want you to GET from my writing.”. UW-Madison Oral History Project. IWU Research . Seminar. 7 October 2015. Jan . Vansina. in . Living with Africa. [After describing the scene of an interview with one of his . Bushong. informants—. Process theology. Seeks to merge the findings of contemporary science with Christian thought.. Whitehead (1861-1947), Hartshorne (1897-2000), and Cobb (1925-) are leading proponents.. God’s existence and creation are not static, but dynamic.. African Literature. Sub-Saharan . Africa has two distinct kinds of literatures: Traditional oral poetry and the Written Literature. Traditional oral poetry and folklore date back to the early days of various tribal cultures and the written literature emerges in the 18th century but mostly it is the phenomena of 20th century.. Often artists use themes as a way to . Spark ideas. Answer questions visually. Tell stories. .. Types of Themes: Descriptive Themes. Descriptive themes ask story like questions. . They are usually concrete, containing nouns, but allow for many interpretations..